Is 3I/Atlas an alien spacecraft or just a really interesting rock hurling through the cosmos? That debate has been raging ever since the comet, only the third known interstellar object to enter our ...
On October 29, Comet 3I/ATLAS reached its closest point to the Sun. This point, known as perihelion, was around 210 million ...
It is not every day we get a visitor from another star system. The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is just that: a rare traveller ...
A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news earlier in July when it was confirmed to have originated outside of Earth's solar system. But is 3I/ATLAS definitely an icy comet? A trio of researchers that most ...
Because the spacecraft are equipped with cameras that aren't designed to observe an object so far away, the images they captured were fuzzy. Still, scientists were able to get a little bit of a look ...
3I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the galaxy. By Kenneth Chang For only the third time, astronomers have found ...